Cocos2D Game Development Essentials

Ben Trengrove

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781784390327
• Topic: Informatica
• Subtopic: Programmazione di dispositivi mobili

Cocos2D Game Development Essentials

---

Table of Contents

Cocos2D Game Development Essentials

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more

Why subscribe?

Free access for Packt account holders

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Started with Cocos2d

An introduction to Cocos2d

Installing Cocos2d

Installing Cocos2d with the installer

Creating a Hello World project

Installation for Android

Template project code breakdown

IntroScene.m

The HelloWorldScene.m class

Summary

2. Nodes, Sprites, and Scenes

The building blocks, nodes

Children nodes

Adding children

Removing children

Drawing order of the children nodes

Working with multiple coordinate systems

Sprites

Putting it into practice

Adding nodes to the scene

Detecting touches and responding

The next step

The Cocos2d update loop

Scenes

Scene life cycle

Creating a CCScene

Transitioning to another scene

Putting it into practice

Summary

3. SpriteBuilder

Creating a new project

The Main editor window

The Resource pane

The Options pane

The Timeline pane

Creating Flappy Square

Creating a new scene/layer

Linking to a SpriteBuilder scene in code

Enabling physics in SpriteBuilder

Connecting SpriteBuilder objects to Xcode properties

Creating reusable components

Moving obstacles across the screen

Detecting collisions

The next step

Summary

4. Animation with SpriteBuilder

Adding sprites to SpriteBuilder

Creating sprite frame animations

Switching out the obstacle image

Particle systems

Designing a particle system for our character

Adding a SpriteBuilder particle system in code

Final polish to Flappy Bird

Keyframe animation in SpriteBuilder

Animation in code

Moving, scaling, and rotating

Chaining actions together

Running actions simultaneously

Repeating actions

Running code on completion of an animation

Summary

5. User Interaction and Interface

Detecting touches

Getting the touch location

Dragging a node

Adding buttons to your scene

Accepting user input with form elements

Presenting data in a table with CCTableView

Creating a CCTableView data source

Adding a CCTableView node to the scene

Summary

6. Physics Engines

Introducing physics engines

Adding joints

Adding a sprite joint

Dragging an object against a spring joint

Firing objects from the catapult

Creating a motor

The next step

Summary

Index

Cocos2D Game Development Essentials

Copyright © 2015 Packt Publishing

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews.

Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the author, nor Packt Publishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book.

Packt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all of the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals. However, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information.

First published: January 2015

Production reference: 1190115

Published by Packt Publishing Ltd.

Livery Place

35 Livery Street

Birmingham B3 2PB, UK.

ISBN 978-1-78439-032-7

www.packtpub.com

Cover image by Ben Trengrove (<[email protected]>)

Credits

Author

Ben Trengrove

Reviewers

K. Aava Rani

Sergio Martínez-Losa Del Rincón

Allen Sherrod

Commissioning Editor

Akram Hussain

Acquisition Editor

Richard Gall

Content Development Editor

Poonam Jain

Technical Editor

Parag Topre

Copy Editor

Relin Hedly

Project Coordinator

Mary Alex

Proofreaders

Simran Bhogal

Linda Morris

Indexer

Mariammal Chettiyar

Graphics

Abhinash Sahu

Production Coordinator

Alwin Roy

Cover Work

Alwin Roy

About the Author

Ben Trengrove is an experienced iOS developer who started developing with the release of the first iOS SDK. He spent 3 years as the senior developer at Shiny Things (http://getshinythings.com), where he lead the creation of all Shiny Things games using Cocos2d. These apps have been featured as the editor's choice by Apple around the world. Today, Ben runs a mobile app agency that is based out of Canberra, Australia—Stripy Sock (http://stripysock.com.au).

I would like to thank my gorgeous wife for her patience during several weekends that I spent writing.

About the Reviewers

K. Aava Rani is the cofounder of CulpzLab Pvt Ltd, a software company, with 10 years of experience in game technologies. A successful blogger and a technologist, she switched her focus to game development in the year 2004. Since then, she has produced a number of game titles and has provided art and programming solutions to Unity developers across the globe. She is based in New Delhi, India. Aava Rani has been the recipient of several prestigious awards, including Adobe for Game Technology Expert 2012 ...